Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Phoenix, AZ

Issued

Feb 14, 1995, 2:30 PM MST (21:30 UTC)

Expired

Feb 14, 1995, 6:00 PM MST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Phoenix, AZ

Area

Whole counties

County Yavapai County, AZ

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BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
230 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...ALL OF YAVAPAI COUNTY AND EXTREME SOUTH-CENTRAL COCONINO COUNTY
     INCLUDING PRESCOTT...CAMP VERDE...ASH FORK...COTTONWOOD...
     CORNVILLE AND THE SEDONA/OAK CREEK CANYON AREA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED A NUMBER OF REPORTS OF
FLOODING OR CLOSE TO FLOODING WITH HEAVY RAIN IN THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING
AREA THIS AFTERNOON. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN CORNVILLE WITH PEOPLE
EVACUATING THEIR MOBILE HOMES. 

THE COCONINO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE AND THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE RANGER
STATION AT SEDONA REPORTED OAK CREEK WAS RUNNING BEYOND ITS NORMAL BANKS
AND 2 FEET ABOVE SOME OF THE BRIDGES WITH LOGS COMING DOWN THE CREEK.
THIS COMPARES WITH 5 FEET ABOVE THE SAME BRIDGES IN FEBRUARY 1993.
HOWEVER...THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT OAK CREEK IS RISING 1 FOOT
PER HOUR. OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT CROWN KING IN SOUTHERN
YAVAPAI COUNTY.

FLASH FLOODING IS RESULTING FROM HEAVY RUNOFF DUE TO HEAVY RAIN ON A WET
SNOWPACK AND HEAVY RAIN ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.

DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.

DO NOT CAMP OR PARK YOUR VEHICLE NEAR STREAMS OR OTHER AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLASH FLOODING.

CRAIG ELLIS

In the hours before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YUMA AZ
1213 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN THE YUMA AREA...

SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE BEEN BLOWING AT 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO MORE
THAN 40 MPH IN THE EXTREME LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY LATE THIS
MORNING. THE HIGHEST GUSTS AT THE AIRPORT IN YUMA HAVE BEEN 43 MPH.

ALTHOUGH MOISTURE LEVELS ARE HIGH IN THE AREA...WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE
CAN STILL CAUSE BLOWING DUST. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD
EXERCISE CAUTION ON HIGHWAYS IN THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY ON INTERSTATE 8
WHERE THESE WINDS ARE ACTUALLY CROSSWINDS.

GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED IN FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

FAUSETT

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YUMA AZ
1213 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN THE YUMA AREA...

SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE BEEN BLOWING AT 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO MORE
THAN 40 MPH IN THE EXTREME LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY LATE THIS
MORNING. THE HIGHEST GUSTS AT THE AIRPORT IN YUMA HAVE BEEN 43 MPH.

ALTHOUGH MOISTURE LEVELS ARE HIGH IN THE AREA...WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE
CAN STILL CAUSE BLOWING DUST. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD
EXERCISE CAUTION ON HIGHWAYS IN THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY ON INTERSTATE 8
WHERE THESE WINDS ARE ACTUALLY CROSSWINDS.

GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED IN FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

FAUSETT

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.